Renu's Travel Tales n Random Thoughts: 2015

Sunday, June 14, 2015

A day of binging.....

A day of binging….from farm food to street food to cool food

1. The Farm, Semmancheri, OMR, 2. Street food on 2nd Line Beach Road, 3.Haven Sampoorna, Bessy

Saturday, 13^th Jun, 2015

The Farm, Semmancheri Village,

OMR, Chennai

www.thefarmchennai.com

Tel: +91 9176050562

The Farm - The name could not be more apt. I really liked the place. They have Dairy, small poultry, stable with horses, organic vegetable garden. Pavithra & I like the food (when have we not liked any food!!!???) while Anand just about liked the food. The restaurant is open for breakfast & lunch. They also have rooms for stay & so restaurant is open for dinner only for the guests who have booked rooms at The Farm and not for others.

Went around the Farm & came back sweating – a visit when the sun shows some mercy, would be ideal.

On the whole, good food & a great place. Pets are allowed…so one more trip to The Farm with our pet Sparky, for their bed & breakfast package, is on the anvil.

Came back home, a quick shower & rushed to office by around 11 AM !!!

While Pavithra & Anand had lunch at Ascendas…in the usual food joints there, I had only watermelon juice….keeping my stomach empty to hog the Burmese food, you see !

In the evening, had garam adrak chai (ginger tea) at home & started for 2^nd Line Beach Road (opp Burma Bazar) for the much awaited Burmese street food…athos & egg masala.
Of course, Anand did not wanna take risk & oh yeah, Pavithra & I gulped the Athos. I could see people pouring the prawn & plantain stem yellowish soup on the athos – we had it minus the
soup. Nothing great about the egg masala – just a boiled egg with deep fried onions & little bit of spice. Satisfying experience…

By the time we were done with the Burmese food, hubby dear was feeling hungry…

Haven Sampoorna, 2^nd Avenue, Besant Nagar

http://www.havensampoorna.com

Haven Sampoorna at Besant Nagar – yummy food & a decent place.

The Madras curry soup, rotis & bhindi masala, Gobi Manchurian, desserts – everything was superb. Packed fried rice for Sparky & returned home.

What a day it was….I liked all the food that I had today…sounding like a glutton??? Well, that’s fine….live as if there is no tomorrow!!! What says you….

The thirst for varieties of food being quenched, the road trip bug has now caught on & how !

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

LIFE...two sides of a coin

Life is but like two sides of a coin
heads & tail - two faces of a coin

some ones victory is some one else's defeat
one person's gain is another's loss

there's celebration of birth somewhere
& mourning of a death somewhere else

some ones pleasure is some one else's pain
while there is a sunrise somewhere, there is a sunset somewhere else

Life is but like two sides of a coin
heads & tail - two faces of a coin